One of two orders erected by Blumenbach into which he classified the primates; humans alone were placed in Bimanus while the rest of the primates were classified as Quadrumana. This dramatic separation of humans from apes has not been supported by subsequent evidence, and these taxa have been dropped.

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close affinity hypothesis (View that humans and apes are closely related, in contrast to Blumenbach’s separation of humans ...)